Tag: Charlotte Mason

We’ve been homeschooling for a little over six months now. After over a decade working in schools, I am surprised at how totally different homeschooling is! Especially homeschooling in 210 square feet. The parent/child dynamics are so different than the dynamics between student and teacher. I don’t think there’s anything *wrong* with most schools, but… Continue reading A Look Inside Our Homeschool- Funschooling with The Thinking Tree

It has been a long journey since we moved out of the mold on June 6th. We have relocated 21 times and are finally in a long-term space. When we decided to homeschool this year, we had no idea what we'd be facing over the summer. I also could never have imagined how significantly homeschooling… Continue reading A Look Inside Our Homeschool: Volume 1, Language Arts

This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase through one of these links I will receive compensation (at no additional cost to you). This helps me to continue my blogging efforts and I greatly appreciate your support of my blog on this way. We have officially completed our first month of homeschooling. This… Continue reading Homeschooling Month 1- Complete!

We officially started school on September 8th with Ambleside Online Year 1 Curriculum. For most of August, however, we did a bit of school with their incredible Crisis help page. I can’t say enough good things about this free resource. The Crisis help page is designed for people who have been either displaced from their… Continue reading Our Experience Homeschooling in Crisis and Transition

This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase through one of these links I will receive compensation (at no additional cost to you). This helps me to continue my blogging efforts and I greatly appreciate your support of my blog on this way. This is my first "A Day in the Life" post!… Continue reading A Day in the Life: September 22nd 2017

(I wrote this last night. Some thoughts and reflections on the last two years of being a "school mom" with a chronic illness and of the start of our homeschool time) We had Kindergarten graduation today. The kids have one last day of school tomorrow. Which means one last school night. Maybe for a long… Continue reading One Last School Night…

In 10 school days, I will be a homeschool mom. I am equal parts excited and intimidated. The “plan” had always been to homeschool. However, when we moved to a new town, I got sick, and the store I was working at closed, my kid was lonely and sad. At work, he had all-day… Continue reading We’re Almost Homeschoolers!